Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getting them into the wild.
… Let Our Children Roam Free Tim Gill | 23rd September … Play Nature Education Woods Obesity Child Children Outdoors Children Education Food And Health Mental …
Children are an indicator species for the health of our communities, writes Melissa Henry - and they are being forced off our streets by traffic. This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them of exercise. It's time to break the vicious circle!
… We must make our streets fit for children Melissa Henry | 13th May 2014 Comment … UK Pollution Education safe-streets-cut.jpg Children are an indicator species for the … This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them …
Production line education is creating clones and stifling the imagination of our children. Is it any wonder they are stressed and unhappy?
… Robotic children Nick Kettles | 2nd February 2009 News Education Children School Creativity Schooling Education Children Society Robotic_children_MAIN.jpg …
Camilla Scaramanga takes a look at how growing food in schools is having a positive impact on children, teachers, parents and wider society.......
… in schools is having a positive impact on children, teachers, parents and wider … improves health and well-being by encouraging children to eat the fruit and vegetables … outside the classroom believe it allows children to discover their own love for, and …
When the classroom is the outdoors the possibilities are endless. Phoebe Doyle explores the practicalities, the realities and the huge potentials of the outdoor nursery concept
… Secret Garden nursery: a unique daycare where children spend all day outdoors Phoebe Doyle | … the dangers lying ‘out there' waiting for our children, where watching a screen of one kind … some educationalists are yearning to set children free. Sue Palmer, author of Toxic …
Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.
… Children need sensitive climate change … | 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism kids-2835431_960_720.jpg Children feel the threat of climate change and …
I am pro-vaccine, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. So let me explain why I edited the book 'Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak', which exposes the dangerous and avoidable use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around the world.
… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines … thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around … vaccines when I was a boy in 1954. Today's children cannot school without at least 56 …
New study into the impact of outdoor activity on children's wellbeing suggests being outside makes youngsters feel more confident.
… Nature connection helps children learn Alison Kershaw | 7th November … study into the impact of outdoor activity on children's wellbeing suggests being outside makes youngsters feel more confident. Children believe that spending time in nature …
Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring at screens, writes Sandra Thompson. High time to get them outside with the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ...
… Reconnecting children with our wonderful world Sandra … Education Natural World bugstorey-2.png Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring … the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ... With children spending an average of almost 14 …
Dow's teratogenic pesticide chlorpyrifos is a human and environmental disaster, writes Janette D. Sherman. It causes serious, irreversible damage to the human foetus even at low concentrations that may be harmless to the mother, resulting in severely and permanently disabled and mentally damaged children. But it's still sprayed in vast quantities on America's farms.
… and permanently disabled and mentally damaged children. But it's still sprayed in vast … press concerning loss of intellect among children exposed to chlorpyrifos is important … of chlorpyrifos detected in New York City children, raises the question of exposure via …
They need to play; we buy them toys. But education writer Phoebe Doyle thinks you might just be wasting your money, and your children’s time
… Child's Play: How Children Learn Phoebe Doyle | 17th July 2012 … might just be wasting your money, and your children’s time The significance of play is immense; “Put simply, play is how children learn”, says Montessori teacher …
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution
… Schneider: local authorities must protect children, not catering firms Laura Sevier | … campaign to ban junk food in schools and get children eating 'fresh, tasty, nutritious' … that the authority should be protecting our children rather than the contractor who is …
Flame retardant chemicals lower children's IQs, disrupt hormone function and cause a host of other health problems, writes Pat Thomas. Yet they are ubiquitous in homes and offices, even in bedding and accessories for babies and young children.
… Flame retardants are the new lead - our children must be protected Pat Thomas | 13th … Flame retardant chemicals lower children's IQs, disrupt hormone function and … bedding and accessories for babies and young children. It's always a good day when you hear …
A new book aims to get children off their mobile phones and back where they belong: in the great outdoors. It's packed with well thought-out, purposeful activities to get children interacting with nature, but Martin Spray wonders: is it all trying too hard? Has the essential nature of 'play' somehow been forgotten?
… Books mud-pies-cut.jpg A new book aims to get children off their mobile phones and back … thought-out, purposeful activities to get children interacting with nature, but Martin … 'roaming radius' has all but vanished. Our children are close to being obligate …
Factory schools threaten the survival of Indigenous culture.
… Ecologist Indigenous Peoples Education Tribal children assemble at Kalinga Institute of … made derogatory racist remarks about Adivasi children being schooled at KISS. Samanta … in Bhubaneswar is exclusively for Adivasi children – 30,000 girls and boys from Adivasi …
Education must nurture young people who are aware of the problems that our world faces and who are armed with ideas on how to tackle them.
… during the industrial revolution, they gave children approximately standardised skills in … part of the primary curriculum. New system Children care about what is happening to our … YouthStrike4Climate protests saw over 15,000 children march in more than 60 towns and …
Letting children learn flexibly and organically creates rounder, more educated human beings, says Mike Fortune-Wood
… Home School House Humans Beings Education Children Society How-to-Home-educate_MAIN.jpg Letting children learn flexibly and organically … school approach of set curricula and things children should learn at particular times is …
Pending reforms to the UK's school curriculum mean that from September 2014, pupils aged 7-14 can expect to learn gardening skills. Camilla Scaramanga takes a look at some of the initiatives that are already taking the lead......
… Children and the Environment: How gardening … aims to significantly increase the number of children eating good food in schools, and has … has involved 17,250 schools in the UK. Giving children the opportunity to grow, harvest and …
Rice can often contain high levels of arsenic, writes Andy Meharg. But while levels of this highly toxic element are tightly regulated in water, the EU has set no limits for arsenic in food. This needs to change, fast - and until it does, be careful not to feed too much rice to babies and small children ...
… not to feed too much rice to babies and small children ... There are two sides to rice: the … most worrying are lung and bladder cancers. Children of most concern The first food that … arsenic than adults. Babies and young children under five also eat around three …
More and more educational establishments are becoming environmentally friendly, thanks to the Eco-Schools scheme. Is this our road map to sustainability?
… it might yet come to pass – if, that is, the children, teachers, NGOs and local authorities … and farms to talk about growing, and give the children a chance to witness the harvest. ‘It … annual Walk-to-School Month has inspired children and parents to promote healthier …
The US is denying huge numbers of black and brown children their chance to achieve their cognitive potential by quietly poisoning them with lead and other toxins, writes Rita Turner. The offense is then compounded by providing the victims deeply unequal educational opportunities, and disregarding their civil rights.
… US is denying huge numbers of black and brown children their chance to achieve their … indicate that Freddie Gray, like too many children - especially children of color and those in poverty - …
The US Environmental Protection Agency has just failed farm workers and their families by refusing to ban a neuro-toxic pesticide that causes severe brain damage in utero and to exposed children, writes Patti Goldman - imposing only weak, inadequate restrictions based on flawed science. It must do better!
… severe brain damage in utero and to exposed children, writes Patti Goldman - imposing only … damage to the developing brains of unborn children at far lower doses than the EPA's … First, the Dow model would allow children to be exposed to amounts of CPR that …
It’s mad that children living in poverty could be denied a healthy, hot school meal. It mustn’t be allowed to happen.
… - State of the Nation 2018 It’s mad that children living in poverty could be denied a … and down the country are working hard serving children with healthy and high-quality hot … School Meals were introduced. Today, more children than ever before are enjoying a good …
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, must be fought off.
… Anthropology is so important, all children should learn it Marc Brightman | 10th … should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, … anthropology lesson to a packed assembly of children aged from four years old upwards, and …